ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the behavior of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and how they impact the systems of a victim. It refers to DDoS by a fancier term called the "Virus Rain™", which is made up of millions of distributed nano zombies unleashing clouds of stealth attack vectors to deliver millions of exploits. The Virus Rain is the harvest of a massive tactical brigade of programmable DDoS botnets. Darkness DDoS bots create mammoth amounts of Internet Control Message Protocol and Hypertext Transfer Protocol floods. The Mariposa botnet specializes in cyber scamming and DDoS. DDoS is a violent cyber implosion that brings any computing infrastructure down. The largest DDoS attacks in Q4 came not from Mirai but from Spike botnets. Experts at Akamai spotted a new malware kit named Spike, which is used by bad actors to run DDoS attacks through desktops and Internet of Things devices.
